binaries

Noun

binary (countable and uncountable, plural binaries)

1. A state in which only two values are possible, in which something must have one value or the other.
   • The correlation between warmth and cold is an internal one where the existence of one depends on and is defined by the other. Hence, the yin-yang binary as a correlative binary of light-shade or warmth-cold [...]2012, Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee, Confucianism and Women: A Philosophical Interpretation, →ISBN, page 51
2. (uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.
   • As our initial exposure to the base 10 number system consisted of learning how to count, it also makes sense that we might begin by learning how to count in binary.1987, Robert W. McBeth, J. Robert Ferguson, IBM Assembler: An Intuitive Approach, John Wiley, page 5

   Synonyms:

   base 2

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